Apparel corset



D. KOF'S APPAREL CORSET May 27 Filed May 8, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 D. KOPS APPAREL CORSET May 27, 1924- Filed May 8, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 3 Hi3 ATTORN Patented May 27, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.. ASSIGNOR TO KO'PS BROS. INC., 0]? NEW YORK,

N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

APPAREL CORSET.

Application filed May 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an apparel corset and more particularly to the construction of a closed back garment. The construction of the front of the garment may be of any desired type, for example, as is shown in Letters Patent No. 1,432,470, granted to me October 17 1922. In this and otherforms of closed back corset garments as heretofore constructed due to the manner in which the lower portion of the garment is made and the tension applied thereto in the adjustment of the garment to the body of the wearer it has been difiicult to prevent the stays at the upper portion of the back from extending outwardly particularly when the wearer is in a seated position. This tend ency of the stays to extend outwardly at the upper central portions of the back, it being understood, is due largely to the tend ency of the pressure exerted on the garment to cause the lower end of the stays to conform closely to the body at the lower ends thereof thereby tending to force the stays outwardly at their upper ends particularly when the garment is so constructed as to permit of any play circumferentially the.

upper portions thereof.

The object of my present invention is to overcome this 'difliculty and in so doing the.

npper e ge thereof appreciablydistant, that 1s lower than the upper edge of the garment and fitted with a strap which-at its upper edge completes the continuity of thegarment and overlies the upper portion of the said back section 'so as to extend over the same and the upper ends of the stays therein so as to exert a tension thereon to prevent these stays andthe' u back section from extending outwardly from the body particularly when the wearer of the garment is in'a seated position, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an per portion of the.

1923. Serial No. 637,408.

:illustrating a portion of the upper back members of the garment, this figure showmg the inner side of the garment.

Fig. 3 is also an elevation of the back of the garment on an enlarged scale showing the outer side thereof, and

Fig. 4 is a section on line 44, Fig. 2.

As hereinbefore stated the construction of the front of the garment in which my present invention may be incorporated is preferably similar to that shown and described in Letters Patent 'No. 1,432,470, granted to me October 17, 1922. It will be understood, however, that this or any other desirable front construction may be employed. The invention in this case relates more particularly to the construction of the upper portion of the garment at the back thereof. 'By reference to the drawing it will be seen that in carrying out the invention I employ as is usual the body member of the garment in which there is in each portion thereof side sections indicated at 10. The back of the garment preferably includes a relatively narrow back central section 11 and intermediate back sections 12 and 13 adjacent thereto, together with distant back sections 14 and 15 adjacent and suitably secured to the back sections 12 and 13 respectively. The central back section 11 is preferably continuous to the lower fedge of the garment, while the backilseetions 12 and 13 adjacent thereto terminate attheir lower edges along a line appreciabl'y above the lower edge portion of the body of the garment and the lower edges of the back sections 14 and 15 are continuations of the lower edges of the back sections 12 and 13 respectively. The back section 12 is preferably fitted with suitable stays indicated at 16 and 17 and similarly the back section 13 is fitted with stays indicated at 18 and 19. The stays 16 and 18 are placed adjacentthe -edges of the central back section ll and extend from the upper edge thereof to approximately the lower edges of the arment, while the stays 17 and 19 are suitfioly spaced from the stays 16 and 18 and extend approximately from the upper to the lower edges of these back sections in which they are placed. I also employ suitable'staysindicated at 2.0 in this p rtion f adjacent the upper edge of the back section in which it is placed and extending downwardly therein, and a tension strap secured at its ends to the upper portions of the said distant back sections so as to overlie a portion of the upper ends of the said central-and intermediate back sections and the upper ends of the stays therein, while iii the upper edge of the said tension strap com letes-the continuity of the upper edge of tie corset so as to prevent the upper ends of the central and intermediate back sectionsfrom extendin outwardly when the wearer of the corset is 1n a seated position.

4. In an apparel corset, a central back section, back sections distant from the central back section, back sections intermediate of the said central and distant back sections, the upper edges of the distant back sections being continuations of the upper edge of the garment, while the up er edges of the central and intermediate back sections are appreciably below the upper edge of the garment, stays placed on opposite sides of the central back section and extending from the upper ends of the central and intermediate back sections to substantially the lower edge of the garment, stays placed in the said intermediate back sections and extending substantially from the upper to the lower edges thereof, and other stays extending from substantially the upper edge of the distant back section to the lower edge thereof, the lower edges of the said intermediate and distant back sections being continuations of each other, and an elastic tension strap secured at its ends to the upper portions of the said distant back sections so as to overlie a portion of the upper ends ofthe said central and intermediate back sections and at its upper edge substantially completing the continuity of the upper edge of the garment so as to prevent the upper ends of the central and intermediate back sections from extending outwardly from the body when the wearer is in a seated position.

Signed by me this 19th day of April, 1923.

DANIEL KOPS. 

